Posted on 12/04/2009 5:59:26 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
It's been a terrible week for Tiger Woods, but the golf star's moment of madness at the steering wheel has brought a surge in sales for a book written by a science writer teaching at Sussex University.
A series of pictures released by Florida police of Woods's wrecked SUV includes a shot of the back seat, complete with waterbottle, towel and furled umbrella. But there among the shards of tinted glass in the footwell sits a well-thumbed copy of a paperback with the golf-appropriate title clearly visible: Get a Grip on Physics.
This incidental role in Woods's domestic drama has been enough to create a rush to get hold of the book, with the title's sales rank on Amazon.com jumping from 396,224 earlier in the week to a high spotted yesterday by the Wall Street Journal of 2,268.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
If you leave for your mistresses house at 9:30pm, travelling at 40mph to a destination 130 miles away, and your wife leaves with a submachine gun for the same destination at 11:30pm, travelling at 110mph, at what time will she pop a cap in your ass?
I prefer bran flakes and prunes.
Thank God! Another Tiger thread. I’m sure there was withdrawal setting in out there.
Not nearly soon enough for her I would guess.
Tiger is only tangentially involved.
Not quite enough data. At the least, you need to specify the round’s the muzzle velocity, mass, and ballistic coefficent.
Time for physics jokes!!
Two atoms were walking on the sidewalk toward each other and not paying attention until they ran into each other.
Atom 1: Oh my, I think I lost an electron!
Atom 2: Are you sure?
Atom 1: I’m positive!
ping
What is the angle of deflection of a golf club impacting a human skull with a velocity of 100 m/sec.
A neutron walks into a bar; he asks the bartender, ‘How much for a beer?’ The bartender looks at him, and says ‘For you, no charge.’
Feynman’s “Lectures” for me, thanks.
A series of pictures released by Florida police of Woods's wrecked SUV includes a shot of the back seat, complete with waterbottle, towel and furled umbrella. But there among the shards of tinted glass in the footwell sits a well-thumbed copy of a paperback with the golf-appropriate title clearly visible: Get a Grip on Physics.Too bad it wasn't Al Gore's book, because there really is such a thing as bad publicity...
Feynman was a lady's man. Tiger should have been reading him.
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